What's really going on

You're chasing an automation, not a problem. With 10–50 inquiries a month and 2–3 people, you don't have a volume problem — you have a "what happens after someone shows interest" problem. LinkedIn actively detects and throttles auto-DM tools; accounts get warned, then limited, then banned. And the people who reply to a bot DM are rarely the ones who buy.

What to do instead

1. Google Sheets (free) — one tab: name, LinkedIn URL, what they commented on, date, next step. Every commenter goes here within the day. This is your CRM for now.
2. Manual DM, written by you — reference their actual comment in the first line. At 10–50/month that's 15 minutes a day between two of you. Reply rates will crush any bot.
3. Pabbly Connect (low, India-priced — check current pricing) — only later, to push new commenters from a LinkedIn notification email into the sheet automatically. Automate the logging, not the outreach.

Do this today: open a Google Sheet, title it "LinkedIn inbound," and paste in every commenter from your last 5 posts. One row each. 30 minutes.

What you're being oversold

The "auto-comment + auto-DM" tools flooding LinkedIn ads right now (Expandi, Dripify, and the cheaper Indian clones) promise scale and deliver bans. At your volume they solve a problem you don't have, and the platform risk is real — one restricted account and your pipeline is gone. Doing nothing costs you the handful of warm commenters slipping past you each week because no one owns the follow-up. Fix the ownership first.

When to revisit this

When two people are stepping on each other in DMs, or you cross ~50 real conversations a month.

The part worth getting right

Decide what you actually want automated. If it's the grunt work — logging who commented, reminding you to reply, drafting a first line — a sheet plus Pabbly gets you there for almost nothing and keeps your account safe. If it's the outreach itself — bot writes and sends the DM — you're not buying leverage, you're buying risk, and the ban comes in weeks not months. Same LinkedIn, same volume, two very different roads. Which half are you trying to hand off?